jazbo

Sigh, my feedback from reading this thread is that this isn't what the marketing an Miles claimed it would be. Same issues across the board, from ludicrous navigation, through long term issues continuing, and my personal bug bear of the ridiculous press conference lay out and lack of options. So I'll pass, again, and play 22. The problem is that we all know, just like when the match engine went 3D, that next year is going to be a half baked Sh*tshow due to the move to UE, and it will then be the same issues with a different skin etc. I find it depressing. So much could be fixed but isn't, and so much won't be done that could. After so many years of playing CM/FM it just breaks my heart. I'm 51 now, and I don't think I'll ever see it reach the shape it *should* be in. And for me that is due to the leadership of SI.

What's annoying is the media would be SO EASY TO FIX! As a game developer ( tabletop RPGs) I know how you CAN create tension, branchig, and give real decisons with consequences even with paper books! For example, press conferences. Simplify it by: 1. The question is asked. 2. You have a row of buttons to click with your reponse tone : Highly positive, positive, neutral, disinterested, negative, hostile, angry 3. Simply click how you feel about the question and a set of 3-5 tonal answers come up underneath, ranging from least to most detailed/specific right to left.# That's it. Quick to move through and easy with no walls of options, as you have filtered them. Then just make the answers relevant, and be able to ANSWER the question. So if you're sliding down the table after your board sold your top three players in the past three months - allow them them to say it! Whoever is on the FM interactions team really needs to be replaced tbh.

So moaning about negativity....then moans about scouting while dismissing other people's moaning. You're a genius.

What they should do is simple: 1. Make the answers actually match the whole range of the question asked 2. Have a main top row of the generic answers, three will do, and no comment 3. Put a second row along the bottom as now for more detailed answers More options, separated.

Lets be honest, this game is absolutely dead in the water. Boring, tedious, twenty clicks to do anything, boring visually, same old minecraft level graphics for stadiums, press conferences that are a complete joke, endless new features that literally nobody ever uses. GO BACK TO BASICS. - sort the graphics - allow stadium customization - sort press conferences - stop making it take ten clicks to get anywhere - Revisit the basics of the game to get rid of the idiotic mistakes

This was partly my point. Yes they could do that. They could build in an engine to allow uploading/manipulation of the stadiums, including even a basic stadium creation tool using a range of presets. The fact it hasn't been done and that everyone across the world watches their local teams play in what appears to be the north of England, is just effing ludicrous in 2023. SI and FM will NOT encourage in a new generation, who have very high expectations graphically, with the dross they churn out year after year. This is a tipping point, as many experience players like me have now just given up updating a game every year that barely changes other than horrendous skins and annoying and irrelevant "features". Press conferences could be great - but their implementation and the feedback is junior school levels of awful, for example. The list just goes on and on. If I was Miles etc, I would be bringing in graphical people to bring it up to scratch, get a stadium builder/editor implemented, make press conferences worth it, and forget about nonsense like focusing on womens football.

This is spot on. The exact reason why I haven't bothered, and won't. SI Games have to get off their butts, ditch the complacency, and take things UP A LEVEL. My 12 year old is football mad, he plays fifa, and many other PC games. He literally laughed his face off looking at the match engine of FM. Stadiums that all look the same when it would be pretty easy, especially with community support, to model stadiums far more realistically. Also, seriously, when I visit Dereham town with Norwich pre season, who basically play in a field with a fence around it, and suddenly there's a stadium - it's just pathetic. It's all very well defending all this by saying its about player accuracy and tactics, but that won't cut it forever - immersion is about EVERYTHING. FM is ten years behind graphically. It's that simple, and it's indefensible. And as the poster I quoted stated, the press conferences are TERRIBLE. I am a professional writer, and I could put together better questions and options in about ten minutes. Worst of all is when you have an injury crisis, and you can't even give that as a reason for poor form in the press conference. The answers you can give are often irrelevant, or ridiculous. It's simple pairing - it IS NOT THAT HARD TO ACHIEVE. That's just scratching the surface of the issues, and don't even get me started on the antiquated game animations. Just awful. This game needs a kick up its backside, and so does everyone involved in making it. It's become an annual stat tweaking, gloss of paint, go through the motions, snorefest. If the developers dismiss criticism like mine and many others who playe upd this game, and CM before it, then they are leading to their eventual decline, as someone else will produce a rival eventually.